Saleema Gulzar

Biography:

Dr. Saleema Gulzar is working as an Associate Professor and Director, Research & Innovation at the Aga Khan University School of Nursing and Midwifery and brings twenty plus years of experience. In addition, she is serving on an elected board of directors and Joint Secretary at the eHealth Association of Pakistan.  She did her PhD at the University of Sydney, Australia, examining adolescents’ physical activity levels through a mixed-method approach. Her research interest has been towards adolescents’ health through the school health promotion approach, beginning with working as a school health nurse. She is the first in Pakistan to introduce a comprehensive school health promotion program in Pakistan in which her unique contribution was to develop a school health curriculum framework for the schools till the approval of policy for the position of School Nurse at Aga Khan Education Services, Pakistan. recently she conducted a research project initiating the teleconsultation in public school setting, which is sustainable in local context. further she is the first master trainer in for blende learning and developed several online courses over a decade.

She is also an active researcher and author of over 80 publications, including peer-reviewed papers and book chapters, many of which showcase her knowledge and research on Digital Health in various regions of Pakistan, spanning from underdeveloped areas such as Gilgit, Chitral and rural areas of Karachi to Semi-urban areas of Karachi. Her work has been a major contributor to the Digital Health project implementation in the Northern Areas of Pakistan. She is known for exemplary teaching practice and was awarded for her Research and teaching scholarship.